fishinwrench

Going great! I made adjustments on the trigger but I see no need for doing anything else. All of my groups are smaller than a squirrels head until I get past 45 yards, and I don't think I'd take an honest 50 yard shot on anything. I'm not confident about my pellet energy that far out. In my opinion 46-75 yards is .22 rimfire turf, and not the place for these guns. I'd need a way better scope and a nice comfy bench rest in the woods to even think about taking a 50 yarder, so I think I'm content. Had my first Swarm magazine failure the other day. Overhauled it and found lots of teeny tiny bits of lead had built up and caused it to drag.....so now I wash my pellets. After 100 or so rounds of washed pellets I opened the magazine up to inspect it and it was clean as a whistle, so washing pellets with the 10x system is kinda mandatory I think. Pretty sure my next project is gonna be hot-rodding a Crosman 1322 pistol instead of getting an open sighted rifle like I was wanting before. Guys are getting over 550fps out of those and that kinda turns me on.

Chuck T. appeared to be happy just wade fishing small creeks for dinks and never stepping into a boat of any kind. I think he approached his smallmouth fishing much like headwater fishing for brookies, which can certainly be enjoyable. There are a few streams I visit at least once every year where the biggest brown bass you're gonna catch might be 12" and every fish in there is dumber than a sack of hair. But on fly gear it's alot of fun, mostly because you know that the only human footprints you'll see all day will be your own.

Moniteau cr. is not North, it is south of Jeff City and pretty much a waste of time. The South fork of it (near Fortuna) MIGHT have a few Smallies but you'll be wading with cows on private land trying to find them. Whetstone cr. is kinda cute, but there's nothing in there big enough to eat a 6" rubber worm. Hinkson cr.: Don't even waste your time. That's where the mayor of Fulton (or whoever it was) was dumping all the dead hogs. Loutre: Green sunfish and carp.... and darn few of those in the upper reaches. Further down it's all bullheads, gar, and Asian carp. I've actually floated it from 3 miles above I-70 to Hermann. Lots and lots of trash. Chucky put alot of unnecessary miles on my truck, I'd like to have kicked him in the balls. But the book did lead me to some really good areas that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. Auxvasse cr.: Ok time for me to hush up.

Here's what I get with Crosman Premier Hp's. Seems about right. Will test some others when it isn't so cold outside. In case you always wondered....knocking your phone off a bucket happens at 51 fps with an energy coefficient of 0.1 ft/lb.

The widow up the street used to give me 10.00 and a cup of hot chocolate to scoop snow off her sidewalk. Took me all of about 25 minutes. We could also go stack pallets of bricks for 5.00/hr. at that time. Talk about a job that'll give you the Kung Fu grip !

Didn't know if you knew about this... http://www.chronoconnect.com/mobile.html Works awesome !

Who paid your bills ?

I'm selling this fairly clean, great running old 1973 Johnson electric start 20hp for 700.00 and it WILL sell for that price easily. If it was just a little bit cleaner I could get 900.00 Guess what it cost new in 1973 ? 585.00 God I love this business. Do you reckon your new 4-stroke will still be running, and will be worth 200.00 more than you gave for it in 45 years?

I got all the way until BH said he had peach and apple trees budding before I realized this was a post from MARCH. Oneshot, go to bed !

I do all of mine on 12 sticky notes, one for each month. At the end of the year I move them to a word document and name it the year number. For the quickest reference I just look at the month in question (previous years) in my photo gallery. One quick glance and all the important details come right back into memory.

I fall into the "below average" category but to be totally honest I'd say that my family lives quite well. We have all we need. Nice enough house and 10 acres of land, have some pretty nice things, and although we might have to wait awhile to afford the more expensive things in life we truly don't "want" for anything. When I hear someone who makes 150k/yr. cry about how bad they have it..... I simply cannot relate. I live quite happily on a little more than 1/3 of that.

Do you even realize how boring it would be around here if all we talked about was how awesome our lives were? Complaining and cussing the negatives is what gets things done here in America. Being easily pleased insures that the only way you'll go in life is downhill. So do yourself a favor and find something to piss and moan about !

Thank you!

Sure. I'll provide the boat if you'll pack us a killer lunch. I don't know if it's a temperature thing or not but the good Smallmouth fishing always seems to be not in the middle of the best trout water. Except for winter, so that makes me think it is probably a temperature thing. The only time you'll find Smallies in Bennett is during the Winter, you aren't likely to catch one in the spring branch during Summer. Am I wrong? Take 20 steps upstream from the confluence during Summer though and there's a bunch. Go the other direction downstream under the 64 bridge....No Smallies, or darn few until you get past Winchester gap, then it's smallmouth heaven from there on down and your surprised to catch the occasional trout. Is that not the way it is? Somebody back me up here.

I'm sorry, excuse my wording, I meant convicted/fined.

If a county charges you with trespass then that seals the deal. They are acknowledging and confirming (legally) that the other party indeed owns the area you were on.

No I didn't see anyone committing the act, I only saw dead gigged fish all over the bottom of the river for 3-4 miles upstream from Barclay. If I had seen them I'd have a REALLY COOL story to tell, and probably a court date coming up real soon.

Well I don't know what to tell ya about that. On the Niangua the best smallmouth water is above and below the trout zone. NFOW is the same way. Same with Roubidoux cr. and every other piece of water where I fish that has trout and Smallies both. Leave it to YOU to know of definite exceptions. I have no answers.

I tried to find the post but I've got more important crap to do now so.... It was September 27 2017

You weren't paying attention then. I talked about it on here the evening after it happened, and called MDC the following morning. Jim Stouffer and Gaithel Blankenship were there. I don't just make crap up, and I'm kinda bummed that you think I do. Call your homies at MDC and see if there's record of it being reported.

Trout water and smallmouth water overlap, but usually the prime trout holding zones are either too cool or something because the best smallmouth water is always above or below the trout water. Except during Winter. Probably more crawdads where the water is a bit warmer.

On the Niangua I believe it's worse than I even let on. I'm not there everyday, and sometimes I go a month without even seeing the river, so I have no doubt that I miss quite a bit. Especially during the actual gigging Season.

Which part? If you're thinking that I made this up, or am even exaggerating....I can call two other witnesses.

Well I don't think that's what the "ECC" is saying at all. But I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment of the thought process going on with those other boys.

I can tell you exactly how the last gigging episode that I witnessed the aftermath of went down. They motored upriver sticking every fish that came under the light, and if it was a sucker it went in the boat, if it was a bass or trout it got shook off. I'd say they probably got from 12-20 suckers but killed 50-70 trout and bass while doing it. They had just stocked trout at Barclay the week before so this time the casualties we're mostly 12-13" rainbows. After going to all the trouble of raising and stocking those fish you'd think that MDC would be a little upset about that, but honestly they really didn't seem too worried about it. Didn't ask me any specific questions or anything, just said "ok thanks".